House Homeland Security Committee

The House Homeland Security was created in 2002 as a "select committee" in conjunction with the creation of the federal Department of Homeland Security. The committee was upgraded to a standing committee in January 2005, at the beginning of the 109th Congress. The committee has oversight responsibility for the Department of Homeland Security.

Sectors Contributing to Members of this Committee, 2014 Election Cycle

PACs

Indivs

Agribusiness

$1,092,720

$586,659

Communic/Electronics

$1,522,221

$629,765

Construction

$714,300

$1,122,217

Defense

$1,291,180

$102,180

Energy/Nat Resource

$1,801,150

$826,308

Finance/Insur/RealEst

$2,901,630

$3,903,558

Health

$1,679,521

$1,210,464

Lawyers & Lobbyists

$643,666

$2,169,001

Transportation

$1,773,775

$573,512

Misc Business

$1,973,397

$2,280,165

Labor

$2,838,290

$3,850

Ideology/Single-Issue

$2,752,727

$712,492

Other

$52,006

$2,535,088

Figures are based on Federal Election Commission data released electronically
on February 02, 2015 Numbers are taken from PAC donations and individual contributions of more than $200.

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